Many Democrats across the country won’t want to be associated with Michael Bloomberg and his gun-control group after Colorado’s recall election that ousted two Democratic state senators, according to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“Every Democrat south of the Mason-Dixon line and west of the Mississippi is going to look at those results and say, ‘Michael Bloomberg — get away from me, stay out of my state, stay out of my district, I don’t want to talk about it,’” Todd said on Morning Joe on Thursday.

He said that the reason for Colorado’s recent shift towards becoming a Democrat-leaning state was that politicians “neutralized the gun issue” until the recent legislation that triggered the recall from gun-rights advocates.

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